Wikipedia:Files for deletion/Replaceable fair use/File:Bret Harrison.jpg


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of a fair use image as a replaceable image. Please do not modify it. 

The result was to delete the image.

AndrewJKD stated in the Replaceable fair use disputed template: This is a promotional image of the actor in question, from http://www.tv.com/bret-harrison/person/47584/photos.html. No freely licensed pictures of this actor exist. Fair use rationale provided by same user also said: Free image is not available on Wikimedia Commons, nor can be made from this image. However these statements fail to adress the core of the "replacable" clause of the non-free policy. It is true that this is a promotional photo, no one is saying that a free photo can be created based on this image, or that we have any images of him on Commons or even that a free licensed photo of him currently exist anywhere. That is however not what the policy asks. If this particular image had any special significance and no other image could convey the same information then obviously the image would not be replacable, but this image is quite explicitly used only to display a picture of the actor in question. For that purpose any photo of him will do, and so the policy says that if a free licensed photo could be found or created of the subject to serve the same purpose as this non-free image it is considered to be replacable. The subject in this case is a living and active actor so it does not seem unreasonable to expect someone somewhere having an oppotunity to take a photo of him in the not too distant future, or release an already existing photo under a free license once we advertise our need for one. As such it us my opinion as reviewing admin that this image meet Wikipedias definition of a replacable non-free image despite the above objections. --Sherool (talk) 10:40, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
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